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NASA Releases Free Global Climate Model Software
ink_polaroid writes "NASA has released its Educational Global Climate Model (EdGCM) for high school and university desktop computers. The software incorporates a 3-D climate model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York. It wraps complex computer modeling programs with a graphical interface familiar to most PC users."
Can you tell me more about this movie? I have never heard of it, nor has it ever been reported on slashdot.
Is it fsp or rts? Is it multi-player and/or single player? And is there a God mode?
I'm sure that no matter how many thousand poor schools there may be, there're a pile of private schools across the globe with rooms full of P4 3.2GHz Dells with Radeon card upgrades who'd be happy to use this to convince the parents of the greatness of their school with the program's flashy graphics.
I think it allows your average high school student to control the weather, evil genius style, but with an easy PC interface.
I mean we all have a few unused exaflops of processing power lying around for this kind of thing. And now, with a PC interface!
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Freud might say that Intelligent Design is religion's ID.
In further news today: 1000's of computer's around the World today began running climate modeling software.
The Combined heat output from all this extra computer processing is expected to bring most model predictions forward by several years due to the extra heat expended.
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SETI - The project were you can look for life on another planet whilst help kill off the current one quicker. I mean would an `intelligent` form of life be chucking out loads of extra signals wasting resources; Search for dead planets maybe, but intelligent life, HA.
Isn't it obvious? It predicts the weather.. I think I'll download it to help me plan my spring vacation.
It would be pretty cool to simulate enviromental doomsday scenarios...
I thought they already said that in the story outline - yes, here it is:
It wraps complex computer modeling programs with a graphical interface familiar to most PC users
Obviously here they are talking about the Blue Globe of Death.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
We ARE ALL DoooooooMED!!!
They are science related topics, which fits the "News for Nerds" part of the masthead.
For example:
NASA (space) Releases (verb) Free (adjective) Global Climate Model (science) Software (computers)
How can that possibly not be appropriate for slashdot?
Phew! I read "climax control software" first.
Scientist: "Global Warming is real, and we must study it more"
Liberal: "The world will end next week! Stop using oil"
Conserv^H^H^H^H^H Republican: "Global warming is a myth created to hinder my business"
Nerd: "I wonder if there is any software that can be used for climate modeling"
"We recommend that you NOT leave the GCM running on a Windows laptop unattended. We have found that some Pentium laptops have difficulty dissipating heat and may shutdown (hibernate) without warning causing the climate model to crash. This does not appear to harm the laptop, but can corrupt GCM output files."
You heard it here first, laptop heat can cause infertility and crash the planet!
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Can you tell me more about this thing called sarcasm? I have never heard of it, nor has it ever been reported on slashdot.
At last my plans to dominate the world are complete. With this software I will be able to
place my chaos butterflies with precision and inflict devastating storms on my enemies!!!!!
Watashi wa chikyubutsurigakusha desu.